Quentin Duane Pukeroa v The Queen - SC 146/2013

Criminal Appeal – Appeal against conviction and sentence – Sentencing Act 2002, ss 23, 85 and 103 – Whether the Court of Appeal erred in finding that the trial Judge was not required to put to the jury a possible alternative basis of conviction for manslaughter – Whether the Court of Appeal erred in finding that taking into account the appellant’ s other offending in fixing the minimum period of imprisonment for the murder did not infringe the prohibition on imposing a sentence cumulatively on an indeterminate sentence of imprisonment.[2013] NZCA 305 CA 886/2010